Quote by Alice Meynell
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlet

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. – Alice Meynell

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The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. – Alice Meynell

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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. – Alice Meynell

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I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people. – Marc Garneau

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Thats my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them. – Kristin Hersh

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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun. – Patricia Heaton

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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses. – Steven Soderbergh

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